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Article: Clark's photo finish; Cold war romance: Clark Gable and Gene Tierney filming in England.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2007
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Byline: CHARLES LEGGE
QUESTION Did Clark Gable make a film at Mullion Cove in Cornwall?
IN NEVER Let Me Go (1953), Clark Gable played one of his last romantic roles,U.S. journalist Philip Sutherland, who falls in love with Marya Lamarkina, aRussian ballet dancer played by Gene Tierney.
Desperately trying to retrieve his bride from behind the Iron Curtain, butstymied by bureaucracy on both sides, he attempts to plead his case directly toSoviet bigwig Molotov, in London for a peace conference.
When this fails, Sutherland aligns himself with an Englishman (Richard Haydn)in a similar predicament. Together, the two men formulate a daring escape planthat could ...